Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 13, 2025

Because it would be impossible for the Taxonomy to include a definitive list of all possible servicing violations, it was constructed to allow flexibility that can also cover unanticipated scenarios.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2024

While initially relying on bulk purchases, institutional investors eventually shifted more toward smaller-scale purchases, merging with smaller investors or investing in the construction of single-family homes to eventually rent them out.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2024

From my vantage point, Waterfall has definitely seen firsthand how Ginnie Mae and the FHA have been proactive here, especially in stabilizing the market after the failure of Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF).” Ginnie Mae has] been very transparent about how securities are meant to support both issuers and investors,” he said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

With existing inventory down, Schuler said new construction has taken on a larger role in his market. New construction has typically averaged around 10% of active listing inventory and in our area right now, new construction has ranged anywhere between 30% to 40% of inventory,” Schuler said. 23, 2024. “In

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

California-based Anchor Loans, founded in 1998, provides capital for professional residential real-estate investors through bridge and construction products. a publicly-traded mortgage REIT, entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Genesis Capital LLC from Goldman Sachs. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 5, 2021

While drive-by appraisals have been a part of the industry much longer than COVID, they are definitely not ideal in a lot of circumstances — namely, the traditional circumstances that require a home appraisal for sale. Specifically, construction labor is in short supply. Lessons of Appraisal Post-COVID-19.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2023

New construction could be the beacon of light the housing market desperately needs right now, as home builders are gaining confidence amongst rising sales, hopefully soon to translate to more residential construction breaking ground in the coming months.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

People aren’t downsizing right now, they’re looking to be able to put multiple families in, and definitely to bring elderly to live with them,” Duryea said. “I About a month ago, Correa said he had five homes in escrow that were still under construction.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

A former Texas A&M cross country and track athlete and Episcopalian minister, Ballard in 2011 co-founded TreeHouse , a retailer to sell environmentally friendly home construction materials. This means that the doors, windows, electrical all are done by contractors after the walls have been constructed.”. Khater wrote.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 12, 2021

Greg: The best way to answer that question is to first look at the definition of supply chain – as a noun, it is the sequence of processes involved in the production and distribution of a commodity. There are distinct supply chains involving residential and commercial construction. Buzz: How are we experiencing one currently?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Like a slow-motion train wreck at first, it is now definitively off the rails and heading over a cliff. This could make raising capital for new construction projects harder, and more expensive, everywhere. The real estate market in China, both commercial and residential, have been unwinding over the last few years. in 2008 and 2009.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2020

They’re frustrated and seeking newly constructed homes or moving further out on the outskirts of Austin , she said. Most of my clients are not just going to change altogether city wise, but I’m definitely seeing a huge uptick in people looking at Buda, Kyle, further south of Austin, for sure,” Myers said.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

Because of historic increases in construction costs outpacing inflation, rapidly growing catastrophe exposure, and a challenging reinsurance market, major insurance carriers like State Farm and Allstate are no longer issuing new homeowner insurance policies in California. The result? Insurance policies for homeowners are skyrocketing.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In announcing their departure from the Golden State, the two major insurers cited the increased wildfire risks in the state and rising construction costs. Right now, insurance is the first call we make when writing an offer to make sure the property is even insurable, and these new rules are definitely going to help,” Armstrong said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Finally, RHS recommends revising the definition of “manufactured home” in the regulations to remove references to RHS Thermal Performance standards for direct loans. MHI, MBA, and CHLA do not consider these actions ‘game changers’ – but they are constructive, and we commend RHS for proposing them,” the letter reads.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2021

April was supposed to be the month that proved America’s economy had definitively kicked back into full gear. After all, roughly one million jobs were added in March , roughly 40% of the population had achieved vaccination, and key sectors of the economy planned large-scale reopenings. Instead, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2021

But there are definitely a few main things to looks out for — many of which are carrying over from a turbulent 2020 and early 2021 — when it comes to the upcoming landscape for the rest of 2021: Lack of inventory Fluctuating interest rates Increased adoption of technology.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Since HMDA was introduced, regulators’ definition of redlining has evolved. In a virtual seminar Thursday on “modern-day redlining,” attorneys from Garris Horn, LLP , said the CFPB’s current definition of the practice is better termed “marketing discrimination.”.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

While I hate to be the bearer of bad news, that era is almost most definitely drawing to a close. The second avenue for expanding inventory is new construction. With the coming together of interest rate drops, the persistent, continued low inventory levels and 2023 being recorded as the slowest year for U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

HPC begins by recognizing CSBS sought to align its proposed regulations with the FHFA, but pointed out that its proposal is a “higher of” construct, and that standards may always increase from those at the federal level but would never decrease.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The company’s SEC filing added that, so far, LRE has “not entered into any binding agreement for any acquisition nor identified any definite acquisition target.”. The design and construction of the luxury properties is outsourced to third parties. and further expand our operations in the U.S. through acquisition and joint ventures.”.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 11, 2024

Effective July 1, 2023, amendments to the Duty to Serve regulation modify the definition of “rural area” to include all “colonia census tracts” that would not otherwise satisfy the definition. The number of entry-level homes represent less than 10% of all newly constructed homes, compared to about 35% in the 1970s. population.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

It’s already built, so what difference does it make about the feasibility of its construction as if new!? Since the house (and other vertical and horizontal improvements) already exist, financial feasibility of construction is not the issue. The reason for this is the definition itself of a comparable sale. You are right!

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

The challenge remains lack of inventory — that’s definitely the big one,” said Alison Alston , the broker-owner of Charlotte-based Lodestone Real Estate and Investments. “We We have so much new construction happening. We have just not had any luck getting a lot of inventory increase here in Charlotte.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

This has driven meaningful share gains for new construction,” she added, “with the percentage of new-home listings more than doubling from long-term norms to over 30% of the market.” We believe this lack of existing homes on the market is pushing prospective buyers toward new homes, bolstering sales and construction,” he added.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

There are about 790,000 multi-unit properties under construction as of December 2024. Homebuyers found photos to be the most valuable feature found on a listing website (66%). 80% of buyers financed their home purchase, and 23% of people financed 80% to 89% of the home. Quarter four of 2024 had a rental vacancy rate of 6.9%. year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2024

The inventory shortage — in addition to high financing costs tied to elevated interest rates and related inflation for construction expenses — led to a nearly 30% decline in home flips in 2023, according to real estate data firm Attom. For example, there were 50,000 new homes constructed by builders last year in Dallas-Fort Worth,” he said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2021

” On the construction side, builders throughout the country are struggling to keep up with demand, as lumber and building material prices remain high. “We’re definitely seeing a ton of new projects,” Grebe said. “We won’t renegotiate with you, and that seems to help buyers a ton.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

Brian Parkinson, a loan originator at Alerus Mortgage , says that niche loans – including bridge loans, construction loans, doctor loans and professional series loans for CPAs and attorneys – are a great way to grab an agent’s attention in a market where referrals are critical. Some markets like New Jersey don’t have land to build new homes.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2024

That can be a challenge if they live in an unusual or uniquely constructed home, or if they live on a vast stretch of land with few neighbors. I definitely agree it’s a product that should have a lot more upside,” DeWolf said. “I But Larson and DeWolf both see a lot of potential in HECM for Purchase (H4P), they explained. “I

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

But it’s definitely going to change the origination calculus.” As a model vendor, one of CoreLogic’s services is to construct risk models for insurers to better understand the severity and frequency of losses. But this mainly applies to newer homes, and legacy construction will need to take a different approach.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2023

Rents have room to come down because there remains a backlog of under-construction rentals that have yet to hit the market, which means landlords will continue grappling with vacancies and won’t be able to hike rents as rapidly.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2023

Looking back at historic data, the shelter component of the CPI definitely tracks behind trends in the overall inflation metric. Rent growth will decrease because apartment construction – entry units coming on the market – is already in the pipeline. Inflation has calmed down while rents are still accelerating. in 2024.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2023

Our calendars, schedules and agendas construct a gymnasium where purpose gains definition. The key is to keep our goals and vision in mind, and act distinctly. Time is the ever-present resource on which we can exercise critical choices.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

There’s definitely still a lot of regular home buyers who have been living and working here in Vermont forever and are just being kind of edged out of the market because of people coming from out of state with more cash to spend,” Kavenaugh said. After losing out on multiple properties, many buyers are turning to new construction.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The underlying tension continues to be around the fundamental definition of the word. That’s the case, even though construction work was designated essential from the pandemic’s outset. It’s revitalization that’s changing the neighborhood, the lives of its residents and the workers performing the construction.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

My life is now definitely ‘before and after’ Netflix. That’s not to say we don’t have 22-year-olds coming over and doing $50 million in sales in their first year — because we definitely do. We have incredible multifamily teams, commercial teams, new construction teams, high net worth teams, beach teams, golf teams.

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